On 8/8/2016 10:28 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote:
Yes, that makes sense. But the rovers are not conscious.
Why not? Suppose they are. If you would say "yes to the doctor"
then you must believe that AI is possible.
I have no reason to suppose that AI is not possible. But the Mars
rovers are unlikely to be sufficiently complex/self referential to be
conscious. Do they have an inner narrative?
I wrote "autonomous rover" to indicate it had AI, without committing to
whether that implied consciousness. But it's interesting that you ask
whether it has an inner narrative. I think that our inner narrative is
a way of summarizing for memory what we think is significant so that we
later learn from it by recalling it in similar circumstances. If I were
designing a Mar Rover to be truly autonomous over a period of years, I
would provide it some kind of episodic memory like that as part of it's
learning algorithms.
Brent
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